No coach can claim that and start Wanks in the final ahead of Ndombele and Bale
Moura was our highest rated player in that game - so starting him ahead of Bale was effective in keeping the score 0-0. Bale came on in his place in the 67th minute and had plenty of time to impact the game.
Ndombele wasn't motivated and had told the club he wanted to leave.
Winks didn't have a bad game. Had the most touches of any of our players outside of the CBs.
We were in poor form, and poor morale having just lost our head coach. We were not going into the game with any confidence and the tactic was to make it hard for City and to nick a late goal on the break.
Losing 1-0 in a Cup Final to the League Champions and Champions League finalists is hardly damning.